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Tomorrow's Science Heroes?
An anonymous reader writes "As a kid I was (and still am) heavily influenced by Carl Sagan, and a little later by Stephen Hawking. Now as I have started a family with two kids, currently age 5 and 2, I am wondering who out there is popularizing science. Currently, my wife and I can get the kids excited about the world around them, but I'd like to find someone inspiring from outside the family as they get older. Sure, we'll always have 'Cosmos,' but are there any contemporaries who are trying to bring science into the public view in such a fun and intriguing way? Someone the kids can look up to and be inspired by? Where is the next Science Hero?"
They'll learn all about the Earth remarkable 6000 year journey from nothingness to the present day and how baby dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark. You know... science!
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Trolling is a art,
Einstein believed in God. If one the greatest scientific minds ever to exist can believe in something that can't be proven, then I've got no problem believing science and religion can coexist. Aside from that, many scholars, scientists and philosophers were religious if not actually members of the church.
I dislike that Neil deGrasse guy, he was quite the smirking "I'm smart and you're not" during that whole Pluto isn't a planet anymore crap. I'm with Michio Kaku as my favorite science enthusiast and speaker. He's smart, he's enthused and he didn't go around on the Tonight Show smirking about how Pluto isn't a planet. I'm also looking to punch whoever it was that decided Brontosaurus wasn't a proper name for the Brontosaurus too. (shakes fist in fury)
Enjoy your Karma, after all you earned it. Feel your Karma Joe, feel it burn.
Troooollllllllllllllll. Move along nothing to see here. You should know how slashdotters would react to a post that rejects science in favor of religious dogma. As such, you're just looking to stir up controversy.
Mods, banish the above post to the depths of trollish obscurity.
You just say there are contradictions, but fail to state them. Any incompatibility of religion and science is merely a misunderstanding of religion, and an arrogance of scientific knowledge. Religion and science are different things, with different purposes, and different approaches. Frankly anyone who says science disproves religion, is just as arrogant, stubborn, and narrow-minded as "creationists", aka those who choose to deny scientific findings because it contradicts their faulty understanding of God.
Because at the root, science is based on faith. Science has not provided a robust explanation for the origin of the universe. It cannot explain the four forces. It cannot explain time. All of those are taken as given without explanation or identifiable cause. For all that some people act smug about being enlightened and scientific, the fact of the matter is, their beliefs are as faith based as the beliefs of the unsophisticated religious types they are mocking.
A few years back he was one of figures that helped me jetisson religion, and ever since I've had a greater curiousity about science.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
How can you write that? The underlying assumptions of the big bang are no less faith based than the sky fairy on a six-day creation tour.
Exactly what I was going to say. Calling string theory by using the word theory is profoundly insulting to all the actual theories that have actually gone through the massive amount of scrutiny necessary to be called a theory, not to mention Science as a whole.
I really wish that these string "theorists" would crawl under a rock and only come out a scream and shout when they actually have something to say. But, I'll single out kaku as well as I saw him in an interview a couple years back. I don't know when it happened, but that guy has clearly gone off his nut.
Religion...is the single factor that has influenced the majority of actions of humanity for as long as history can track.
Here's an old folk tale about a baby possum: There was a baby possum who was too afraid to hang upside down from his tail. His mother(friend, whatever) rubbed this "special sap" on the baby's tail, and he soon hung upside down without fear. Later his mother(friend, whatever) told him that is wasn't special sap, it was just water. From then on the baby possum hung upside down without fear, and without putting anything on his tail. Maybe he needed that initial push, but from then on it would be und=fair to attribute his success to any being other than himself. Religion is that "special sap", and it's time for us to take the training wheels off and move on.
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Religion is best enjoyed in historical/literary/philosophical circles, but should not be adhered to as a way of life.
Religion is also kinda like Slashdot's insightful mod: it's neat to dream about things, and some of those dreams lead to good ideas, but if everything was insightful and nothing was informative then we'd just be Digg. 'Nuff said
statistics is not your strong suit is it ?
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